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brought increase m price of beef,
ice and kerosene.
Which might be put this way:
May Day brought the Beef Trust
Hogs, the Ice Trust Hogs and
our, olcj friends of Standard Oil a
little pin money wherewith to
buy their wives or actresses dia
m6nds; " .
Uncle Sam .has .ordered 150
hickory clubs, shaped like base
ball bats, fronrTerre Haute, Ind.,
firm, to be used for killing seals
ini Alaska.
If Uncle Sam would only pur
chase some kind of club where
with to kill off the Morgans and
Guggenheims in AIska we'd feel
a sight better abput it.
Vatican closed today on ac
count of May Day. No Papal
audiences. Police Rome forbade
usual May Day parade of worlr
ingmen. French government has for
bidden workingmen of Paris to
bold annual May Day parade.
Troops .scattered through city to
see that order goes.
The consciences of t some of
those government must be in
awful bad shap,if they are afraid
to allow workingmen to march
through the streetson so inno
cent 'an occasion as a May Day
parade
But ft is not well to talk rudely
of suchjictions on the part of for
eign governments. They might
remind us of what happened at
liawrence, Mass.
House has abolished "gag rule,"
the same being a cute ptovision
whereby postoffice employes were
J merit by superiors to congress,
thus leaving postofhce employes,
politically and industrially, at the
mercy of whatever political gang
ster might happen to be postmas
ter general.
Ex-King Manoel, of Portugal, (
is at Berne, Switzerland, taking
cure for nervousness.
If Manoel, doesntt stop plotting
to regain thev throne, some of
these Portuguese Republicans are
liable, to make hirn a darn sight
more nervous than Gaby of The''
Lillies left hiin.
2,000 Mexican rebels under
command of Manuel Guerrero ut
terly defeated in attack on Tepic,
Mex: 220killed, hundreds badly
wounded.
The Spanish word Guerrero
means warrior, too,
Parisian Underworld, ponder- -ing
over dath of Bonnot, chief
of the Phantom Bandits, is suf
fering from spul state, and its
criminals areTflfcd with a desire
to eat bullets as bnnot ate tiul-
I lets, and die cursing the police,
as Jtsonnot died.
Which would you rather do
smoke sitting on a barrel of gun-
powder, or smoke on the streets
of Zion City.
That's just the way we. feel
about it. Gunpowder isn't so
awfully messy when ydu come?
right down to it
J Bruce Ismay has disregarded
summons to appear before Dis
trfct Supreme Court of Washing
ton, D. C, and has left Washing
ton for New York. Pretty soon
Ismay is likely to know how a
forbidden to complain of ill-treaty I'managingdigor of Jheshifi
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